Re: [PATCH][next] mlxsw: spectrum: fix uninitialized value in err

From: David Miller
Date: Mon Oct 02 2017 - 02:06:29 EST


From: Colin King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2017 17:27:35 +0100

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> In the unlikely event that mfc->mfc_un.res.ttls[i] is 255 for all
> values of i from 0 to MAXIVS-1, the err is not set at all and hence
> has a garbage value on the error return at the end of the function,
> so initialize it to 0. Also, the error return check on err and goto
> to err: inside the for loop makes it impossible for err to be zero
> at the end of the for loop, so we can remove the redundant err check
> at the end of the loop.
>
> Detected by CoverityScan CID#1457207 ("Unitialized scalar value")
>
> Fixes: c011ec1bbfd6 ("mlxsw: spectrum: Add the multicast routing offloading logic")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied.